Statewise COVID cases and deaths in India

May

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

Join AID volunteers to hear from Divya Veluguri and Kiran Vissa about farm and food security in India in the times of Covid-19 and climate change. Register at go.umd.edu/farming-covid When...

May

News article on AID’s partner: Lockdown Warrior Motiur

This is a translation of a Bengali news article on one of AID’s partners and his work during the COVID-19 lockdown. Lockdown Warrior Motiur His usual habit is to be...

May

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

Join AID volunteers to hear from Divya Veluguri and Kiran Vissa about farm and food security in India in the times of Covid-19 and climate change. Register at go.umd.edu/farming-covid When...

May

Holistic response to COVID-19: Update from SOCHARA

Here is an update on the work of SOCHARA, our grassroots partner in Karnataka. Initial response: As part of its primary response, SOCHARA developed a science bulletin to give a...

May

AID-India reaches 12,688 poorest families in 1,213 villages

Latest reports of AID-India’s work (supported by AID) from Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh The scale and suddenness of the lockdown has precipitated a huge food crisis....

May

1 Lakh people in Mumbai screened using PPE with your support

We are supporting Bombay Sarvodaya Friendship Center, who have been instrumental in distributing food to daily wage and migrant workers, slumdwellers, and PPE to health care workers in the city...

May

Webinar on domestic and sexual abuse during Covid times | May 17

Join us for a webinar THIS Sunday, May 17th on Combating Domestic & Sexual abuse during COVID times, with two of our partners Tara Ahluwalia & Priti Jha – advocates...

May

Standing with migrant workers in Haryana

Aman Ki Pahal, our partner in Haryana, has been working to provide relief to people affected by the Covid-19 lockdown. Previous updates on their work can be found here. Update –...

May

Indian Ocean Concert for COVID Relief | May 16

Thanks so much Indian Ocean and Vilas Nayak for the uplifting concert in these challenging times. You can watch the recording of the concert on facebook. To make a donation...

May

Covid relief by Centre for Development in Ahmedabad

Centre for Development (CfD), our partner in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, has been at the forefront of ensuring that Covid relief efforts reach the last mile. Their efforts are a great example...

May

Health Rights for All | Webinar on May 10

Register to join the Zoom webinar: ter.ps/healthcov19 on Right to Health and what it means in COVID times – a discussion with Doctors & Health champions who attend to diverse demographics...

May

Fundraising calls with partners on May 9

AID has been facilitating online calls with partners at the front lines of Covid-19 relief, to connect them to volunteers and donors across the world. This weekend, we have a...

May

Support for waste pickers in Delhi

Informal waste pickers and recyclers are critical to waste management in India. In Delhi, guided by Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, these workers are organizing to ensure their security...

May

Webinar on West Bengal Covid Relief effort | May 9

AID Responds to COVID crisis in Bengal AID–US chapters are hosting a webinar on Saturday, 9th May at 1 pm EDT with Sankar Halder from “Mukti”, an NGO working at the grassroots of Sundarbans, and Partha Dey...

May

Personal Protective Equipment Distribution updates

Around the world personal protective equipments are in short supply. AID has been partnering with grassroots partners across India to distribute personal protective equipments to healthcare workers, police, and communities...

May

32 Days and Counting: SWAN Report on Migrant Workers in Lockdown

May 1 2020: SWAN releases its new report “32 Days and Counting: COVID-19 Lockdown, Migrant Workers, and the Inadequacy of Welfare Measures in India.” This report documents the experiences of...

May

Support for migrant and daily wage workers in Tejgadh

Our partner Bhasha Research and Publication Centre has been at the forefront of providing distributing Covid-19 relief items to vulnerable people, through their Adivasi Academy in Tejgadh in the...

May

Covid-19 updates from Rachana Society in Pune

Taking the vow to do everything possible Rachana Society for Rural Reconstruction is a community project based in Pune district, Maharashtra. Formed in 1989, Rachana has been working in...

Apr

Workers’ Rights and the Covid-19 crisis | Webinar on May 3

Surviving lockdown, reaching home, avoiding the virus. On top of these pressing concerns, hundreds of millions of Indians face an intensifying struggle for livelihoods in the time of the...

Apr

Hunger and COVID-19 – India must ensure food and health for all

April 30, 2020 India has enforced a 40-day lockdown to halt the spread of COVID-19, lauded as one of the strictest state measures in the world. 1008 virus-caused deaths have...

Apr

Reaching the unreached: TRU in Gujarat

Trust for Reaching the Unreached or TRU is one of our partners in Gujarat, that works to improve health in rural Gujarat through community based interventions. More about TRU here....

Apr

Caste, gender, and communal identity and the COVID-19 crisis

How has India’s response to COVID-19 impacted discrimination based on religion, caste and gender identity? Join‌ ‌us‌ ‌to‌ ‌hear‌ ‌from‌ ‌AID‌ ‌partners‌ ‌working‌ ‌on‌ ‌the‌ ‌frontlines,‌ ‌encountering‌ ‌and‌ ‌standing‌ ‌up‌...

Apr

Dire situation in the brick kilns of Kanpur

Among the hardest hit in the lockdown has been India’s massive informal economy, which employs about 424 million Indians, some 90% of the workforce, according to data from the country’s...

Apr

Dr. Abhay Shukla: Public health in the time of COVID 19

How is the COVID-19 epidemic spreading in India and how will the health care system be able to respond? Dr. Abhay Shukla of SATHI and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health...

Apr

Help for Haryana: Aman Ki Pehel

Today we have an update on the work of Aman Ki Pehel, whose members have been delivering rations to Haryana’s Faridabad district in two settlements of daily wage workers. So...

Apr

Integrated public health action with SOCHARA

SOCHARA is our partner in various public health programmes in Karnataka state. Here is an update on SOCHARA’s response to COVID-19. Please visit https://www.sochara.org/covid and also look at their counselling initiative...

Apr

Hunger and the COVID-19 crisis | How will India ensure food for all?

Hundreds of millions of Indians live on the edge, with no savings or stocked-up food, no land, no paid leave or remote work and hence no wages, and are facing...

Apr

Imagining social distancing in rural India

How challenging can “social distancing” be in our villages? Life in a village is quite different. People live and grow there as a community. You could find around 100 families...

Apr

Vidarbha: Elderly Women send Video Appeals for Rations

Elderly women who have found themselves with neither rations in their cupboards nor money to buy are desperately hard hit during India’s lockdown. While distributing rations to those in need,...

Apr

Meet with Ayesha | COVID-19 relief at the last mile in India

This Saturday, April 18, 2020: 1-2 pm EST | 10-11 am PST | 10.30-11.30 pm IST AID has been active with COVID-19 response in India with food, PPE, and support...

Statewise COVID-19 spread in India

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

News article on AID’s partner: Lockdown Warrior Motiur

Farm & Food Security: Impact of Covid & Climate Change

Holistic response to COVID-19: Update from SOCHARA

AID-India reaches 12,688 poorest families in 1,213 villages

1 Lakh people in Mumbai screened using PPE with your support

Webinar on domestic and sexual abuse during Covid times | May 17

Standing with migrant workers in Haryana

Indian Ocean Concert for COVID Relief | May 16

Covid relief by Centre for Development in Ahmedabad

Health Rights for All | Webinar on May 10

Fundraising calls with partners on May 9

Support for waste pickers in Delhi

Webinar on West Bengal Covid Relief effort | May 9

Personal Protective Equipment Distribution updates

32 Days and Counting: SWAN Report on Migrant Workers in Lockdown

Support for migrant and daily wage workers in Tejgadh

Covid-19 updates from Rachana Society in Pune

Workers’ Rights and the Covid-19 crisis | Webinar on May 3

Hunger and COVID-19 – India must ensure food and health for all

Reaching the unreached: TRU in Gujarat

Caste, gender, and communal identity and the COVID-19 crisis

Dire situation in the brick kilns of Kanpur

Dr. Abhay Shukla: Public health in the time of COVID 19

Help for Haryana: Aman Ki Pehel

Integrated public health action with SOCHARA

Hunger and the COVID-19 crisis | How will India ensure food for all?

Imagining social distancing in rural India

Vidarbha: Elderly Women send Video Appeals for Rations

Meet with Ayesha | COVID-19 relief at the last mile in India

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